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Saturday, December 17, 2005

Why, no Virginia, there isn't a Santa Claus

In post news, a teacher told her students that there is no Santa Claus. The parents are besides themselves and the school received complaints for a while.

She told this to a bunch of first graders. Well, I don't think she should have done that, and I'm sure she regrets it now, but I'm glad it didn't turn into a big thing. She sure didn't need to be fired, which she didn't, thank god.

With so much hoopla about people wanting to change the phrase "Merry Christmas" to "Happy Holidays" I just hate all this PC stuff. I mean, I say Merry Christmas because that's what I usually say. Strangely, I find myself saying Happy Holidays to people in the street, at the grocers, wherever because subconsciously I guess I think I should say that.

But I don't want anyone to tell me, "Oh, it's not alright to say Merry Christmas anymore because you might offend someone." Ptooey! to that!

Also, I love Sliders, in case you don't already know, and they have one Christmas episode that I usually watch every year. It's called Seasons Greedings and the premise is that on this world the head of a mall uses subliminal Advertising to keep people shopping their brains out and keep their rates up 300%. Also, you can live in the mall, as there are schools, libraries and hospitals and if you work there you get $200 a day, $100 is taken for housing, $80 you MUST spend in the mall each day. The workers get a debit card, are underhandly forced into spending, go into debt and can't leave the mall if you can't pay it back in full on demand.